I build automation systems, and I do not start with the happy path. I start with the bad day. If a vendor cannot tell me what happens when a field is blank, an app is down, or a model is unsure, I treat that as a real gap, not a small detail. That is the practical test I keep coming back to. Before I sign, I ask for one workflow and one failure case. Then I ask three plain question... https://mooreiq.ai/blog/ai-automation-companies-operator-buying-test